Rational drug design is an example where integrated access to heterogeneous scientific data is urgently needed, as it becomes rapidly available due to new experimental and computa...
At FXPAL Japan we have built an (experimental) Smart Conference Room (SCR) that contains multiple cameras, microphones, displays, and capture devices. Based on our experience, in ...
In this paper, we propose an approach to materialize XML data warehouses based on the frequent query patterns discovered from historical queries issued by users. The schemas of in...
Selectivity estimation of queries not only provides useful information to the query processing optimization but also may give users a preview of processing results. In this paper,...
Data summarization is very important for many data analysis tasks. In this paper we propose a simple but efficient data summarization algorithm, which outputs a histogram for mult...